A very mixed bag, with a trip to the past…

Mail 698 Thursday, October 27, 2011

Muller an AGW "skeptic"? Not so much.

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/44855 has a great deal on this topic.

The summary: Muller is only skeptical of the way in which Mann, Hansen, and the rest have approached the topic. He’s never *not* felt that global warming was occurring or that it was at least partially anthropogenic. He has a lot of good ideas, and frankly I wish that *he* were the one arguing the pro-AGW case, because he’s strongly in favor of things like nuclear power and space-based solar power. It’s a lot easier to agree with someone who says “let’s all be rich enough to do things the clean, expensive way” than someone who says “virtue means starving in the cold dirty darkness”.

Mike Powers

Precisely.

For your amusement, links from Sue and Ed to ads you’ll not be seeing nowadays. Take a trip down memory lane if you’re old enough, or explore the strange world of your parents past for the younger readers…

: http://www.elevateeverything.com/ads-youll-never-see-again-1

And another link with similar types of ads. You’ll love the first one:

http://www.puritanboard.com/f52/ads-youll-never-see-again-64973/

I loved them. Thanks.

Catholic University lawsuits

Jerry,

Catholic colleges and universities are fighting against new mandates that they provide medical coverage for activities that go against their teachings. But there other attacks going on, too —

This law professor is really going after Catholic University. First it was about the school going back to same sex dorms, and now its about not providing Muslim students a place to pray without all those Catholic symbols around them…

http://www.cuatower.com/news/2011/09/16/breaking-news-sex-discrimination-law-suit-begins-proceedings/

http://www.cuatower.com/news/2011/10/20/university-accused-of-discriminating-against-muslims/

Karl

The demands of liberals to liberate people from being reminded that there are those who don’t agree with them are unlimited. It’s a sort of Iron Law at work.

Im sure you have already been bombarded already but here goes…

http://www.ehow.com/how_2015266_conference-calls-using-skype.html

David March

I have many references. I will look into it. Thanks, and I am glad to hear it.

We are the problem

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/25/obama_we_have_lost_our_ambition_our_imagination.html

Don’t you get the feeling we are being scolded for making him look bad?

Steve Chu

It’s all the fault of the American people. It always was. Jimmy Carter redux.

Silly reg of the day

I opened a checking account today at a regional bank where I have done business all my adult life. I was a director many years ago before it grew larger through buying smaller community banks. I gave the standard info for this corporate account, name, tax #, address, cert. of good standing, signed signature authorization, then was asked a question I have never heard before; "Will this account be used for any illegal gambling?" I commented to the branch manager that I had never been asked that question before when opening an account. She said it was a new govt. regulation and she was still waiting for the first "yes" answer. I nominate the genius who thought up that regulation to be laid off at the same time as the bunny inspectors, as he or she is certainly too stupid to make any contribution to society.

Tom Hazlett

We need to have a list of people we would be better off without in government.

Homeland Security Advisor leaking documents

http://pjmedia.com/blog/breaking-homeland-security-adviser-allegedly-leaked-intel-to-attack-rick-perry/

Another case of letting our enemies inside to help us. I’ve always thought DHS was an awful idea.

Phil

DHS and TSA were stupid responses, and cost more than 9/11 did in money; but then the wars cost us more than the 9/11 lives. We killed perhaps ten for one, but I do not think the Iraqis were the Burmans who who were guilty. But if you are to build a grave of a hundred heads, you must make it a public place and not look ashamed of yourself for having done it. If you are going to torture yourself in guilt, you shouldn’t do it at all. But then I said all this at the time when I proposed monuments.

The tyranny continues to intensify:

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The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to remove information, including videos containing “government criticism,” increasing by 70 per cent.

“In the US, Google received 757 takedown requests across its sites and services, up 70 per cent from the second half of last year,” reports technology website V3.co.uk.

“US authorities also called for the removal of 113 videos from YouTube, including several documenting alleged police brutality which Google refused to take down.”

The figures are revealed in Google’s newly released transparency report, which also details how the number of “user data requests” by US authorities increased by 29 per cent compared to the last reporting period.

The reason listed for the removal of a You Tube video in one instance is “government criticism”. The exact identity or content of the video is not divulged. The report states that the removal requests pertaining to “police brutality” were done on the grounds of “defamation” and are included in that separate category, meaning the takedown order on the grounds of “government criticism” was made by the “executive,” ie the federal government.

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/feds-order-you-tube-to-remove-video-for-containing-government-criticism.html

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Most Respectfully,

Joshua Jordan, KSC

Let’s put some nails in this coffin:

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The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees the TSA, has asserted that the release of a classified report on TSA security failures will renew calls for the replacement of the agency with private airport security personnel.

“The failure rate (for body scanning equipment) is classified but it would absolutely knock your socks off,” Florida Republican, Rep. John L. Mica told reporters during a briefing Monday.

Mica also asserted that recorded instances of pat downs failing to detect contraband are “off the charts.” This information is also currently still classified, but is due to be released within weeks as part of an upcoming committee report on the TSA’s first decade.

Mica suggested that the TSA’s performance report would read “sort of like the record of the Marx Brothers”.

The TSA has withheld results of its official security tests, despite repeated requests to release the information under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Department of Homeland Security has classified the results of the most recent random, covert “red team tests,” where undercover agents try to see what they can get past airport security. The reason they have done so, according to MIca, is because the results have been so shockingly and consistently bad for the past nine years.

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http://www.infowars.com/congressman-secret-report-on-tsa-pat-downs-body-scanner-failures-will-knock-your-socks-off/

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Most Respectfully,

Joshua Jordan, KSC

Overpaid Employees

Well, I would give her some credit.  She worked the system; she deserves the money.  However, is this the system we want?

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Jean Keller earned $269,810 last year working as a nurse at a men’s prison on California’s central coast by tripling her regular pay with overtime hours.

Keller got more overtime in 2010 than any other state employee. In all, California’s public workers collected $1.7 billion of extra pay last year, more than half of it in overtime, state payroll data show. The rest was for unused vacation and union-negotiated benefits such as clothing allowances, physical-fitness incentives and special compensation in recognition of a “complex work load.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-26/nurse-making-269-810-demonstrates-california-s-overtime-binge.html

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Most Respectfully,

Joshua Jordan, KSC

Is she part of the 99% or the 1%?

Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Rage On — and on, and on………’

Hello Jerry,

Dr. Hanson’s latest: http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/rage-on-and-on-and-on/?singlepage=true

is worth reading. As is a large number of letters from his readers,

in particular "SG-1", "art chance", and "cfbleachers".

Bob Ludwick

Hanson is generally worth reading. A professor of classics who understands the histories he teaches.

Chesley Bonestell’s Saturn

Jerry,

Another Bonestell composition from Cassini: the rings, Titan, Dione, Pandora, and Pan.

<http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111026.html>

Regards, Charles Adams, Bellevue, NE

Beautiful

‘They turn out to be a detailed description of a ritual from a secret society that apparently had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology.’

<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html>

<http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/copiale-11.pdf>

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Roland Dobbins

There appears to be a secret society for nearly anything.

Newt Gingrich

One thing that I am struck by is your statement about Newt Gingrich, "His major political flaw is a tendency to say things that he doesn’t mean and can’t really defend, but which seemed like a good idea at the time. In many cases they are ideas he hasn’t thought through." I’m currently reading Warlord by Carlo D’Este; the biography of Winston Churchill. D’Este makes the same or quite similar statements about Churchill several times in the course of the book. At least through p 364. And, I’m just to the point of reading about Narvik. So, I suspect that I will be reading it again. Considering the state of things today, that is a good person to be compared to for any politician. OTOH, I hope that after the next administration is out of office, we won’t see the decline of the American Era as rapidly as 1945 – 1946 saw the decline of the British Era.

Pete Wityk

Today’s dose of internet-inspired guilt

Apparently our home galaxy doesn’t have as many neighbors as it’s supposed to — because it’s a murderer! I feel so guilty….

–Mike Glyer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111018092155.htm “How the Milky Way killed off nearby galaxies.”

Two researchers from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. More than 12 billion years ago, the intense ultraviolet light from these stars dispersed the gas of our Galaxy’s nearest companions, virtually putting a halt to their ability to form stars and consigning them to a dim future. Now Pierre Ocvirk and Dominique Aubert, members of the Light in the Dark Ages of the Universe (LIDAU) collaboration, have explained why some galaxies were killed off, while stars continued to form in more distant objects.

How awe inspiringly guilt inducing!

Looks like it may be a double dip in the UK

See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8847034/British-economy-may-already-be-contracting-warns-MPCs-Martin-Weale.html

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"Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement." (SLClemens)

Harry Erwin, PhD

UK universities

Initial figures are a 9% decrease in UK undergraduate entries for next year, but that’s only the early decision applicants. Major crashes in part-time and masters-level programs.

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Harry Erwin, PhD

"If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning." (Catherine Aird)

Horse Soldiers | Secret Mission | Afghanistan | 9/11 | The Daily Caller

This is quite a story. Special operations in an unusual way.

ONE FLAG, ONE LANGUAGE, ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!!

In a message dated 10/23/2011 3:22:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jyacht@comcast.net writes:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/14/secret-mission-the-horse-soldiers-of-911/